Chapter 67: Resourcefulness and Decision-making
Black smoke was billowing from the top of Zhenping Pass.
"Run, it's too late..."
The officers and soldiers looked at the thieves who were pressed by the darkness outside, and knew in their hearts that they could not resist at all, so they galloped and scattered.
This is true for both officers and soldiers, and the people are even more panicked.
"Get out of the way, you old immortal!"
A small colonel, looking at an old woman who was hurrying with a bag in front of him, kicked over without hesitation.
As if he had noticed something, the Colonel rushed back, tore the bag from the old man's hand, and then turned around and ran.
"This is all our belongings, you thief..."
The old man was paralyzed on the ground, and his granddaughter, who was only fifteen years old, could not do anything, just gritted her teeth and watched the officers and soldiers scatter and flee for their lives.
I only heard a "whoosh" sound of breaking the air, and the cluster of arrows that shot from behind shot steadily into the neck of the little colonel.
Xiao Xiao pinched the arrow, and his body slowly fell, his face full of attachment to the student.
The rebels died, and before an old man and a woman could rejoice, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves from behind, and a rogue with a meaty face turned over and dismounted.
Seeing the trembling girl, the thief had a look of lust on his face, and he pushed the old man away and was about to walk towards the girl.
The old man was anxious and angry, and struggled to pounce on the thief.
But where is he the opponent of a thief in the prime of life, I saw that the thief hit him casually, and he beat the old man and staggered down.
The old man still refused to give up, used all his strength, hugged the thief's right leg, and shouted desperately to the girl who was in a daze: "Chunfang, run, run!" ”
"Go to the officers and soldiers, go to the officers and soldiers!"
Relatively speaking, officers and soldiers still have a minimum of constraints, and seeking money will not lead to death, and these thieves in front of them have no rules, so they can really let themselves go.
The thief was also a little upset by this obstruction, and turned around and trampled the old man under his feet, and pressed the knife in his hand straight down.
"The old immortal thing, your granddaughter Uncle Ben raised it for you!"
Listening to the girl's miserable cry for help, the officers and soldiers did not have the slightest intention of stopping, they threw their swords, guns and armor on the ground as much as possible, and the thieves picked them up at the same time, so that they could have a chance to live.
This should have been a peaceful place, but because of the sudden arrival of thieves, it has become a hellish scene on earth.
"The thieves are coming, the thieves are coming!"
"What, who's coming?"
"It's Zhang Huanghu!"
"It's him"
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In Nanyang City, Zhu Youhua looked at the chaos in front of him and couldn't help but be angry.
On the streets, the people packed their bags and prepared to leave the city, and the ruffians also began to take advantage of the fire to loot, and like the officers and soldiers in Zhenpingguan, the officers and soldiers here also walked out of the camp, intending to grab a handful and leave.
Zhu Youhua knew that this was not something he could stop alone, so he turned around and left, going straight to the central camp.
"It's the local garrison that is making trouble, and this kind of thing is not under the control of our Sichuan aid and suppression." Fierce as a tiger is making a transfer, planning to take the troops and horses out of the city to meet Zhang Xianzhong.
The people in the camp shouted and neighed, and the Sichuan soldiers turned a blind eye to the chaos that was close at hand, and instead began to pull out the camp, either to leave, or to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the thieves.
"The fierce general soldier is gone, what should the people in Nanyang City do?"
"People?" Fierce as a tiger smiled, "When do they need me to protect them?" ”
"Lord, wake up, the people can't be saved, I guess you saw it on the way here, and the people who are in turmoil in the city are not only the local defenders?"
Zhu Youhua shook his head: "This is the place where I was founded, Luoyang can defend it, why can't Nanyang defend it?" ”
"Luoyang City is high and deep, and Nanyang is not as good as Luoyang."
"That Zhang Xianzhong is better than that little Li Hongji!" Zhu Youhua said: "I can repel Li Hongji, and I can do the same with Zhang Huanghu!" ”
Fierce as a tiger sneered: "How long can little Nanyang last?" The prince is so brave and brave, it is better to rush out to fight with him even though the last general will die, what is there to fear. ”
"People are inherently dead, but this king's death is not like this, General Meng, how much military rations do you have in your department?"
Fierce as a tiger shook his head: "Not much." ”
"Food, I can provide 30,000 quintals, ordnance, materials, Nanyang Mansion treasury is piled up, gold and silver treasures, I can't get it here!"
"How to retreat from the enemy, okay, let me show you how to retreat!"
In a blink of an eye, the two came to the outside of the Nanyang Mansion, and Zhu Youhua said loudly: "Move!" All moved out of town! ”
At the sound of an order, Huang Hu, Liu Yuqi and others led people to go up without the slightest hesitation.
The soldiers of the Nanyang battalion drove out of the camp neatly, pushed away the officials who were blocking in front of them with the tips of their shiny guns, walked into the already moldy treasury, and pulled the ordnance and armor that had been piled up in the city in large boxes outside the city, and threw them down and left.
It didn't take long for the outside of Nanyang City to be full of supplies.
This was not the end of the day, and a group of riders dragged large chests out of the city, spread out the chests of gold and silver treasures, and turned their horses back.
Looking at this scene outside the city, it was the officers and soldiers at the head of the city who swallowed their saliva unconsciously, this, this is too much.
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After the large-scale looting of Zhennanguan, Zhang Xianzhong did not wait for Luo Rucai's news as agreed, and rushed to Nanyang with people.
Nanyang is an important place in the Tang Domain, and when Zhu Youhua became a domain, Zhu Changxun also gave him 10,000 gold, and of course this piece of fat should be enjoyed exclusively.
But when he rode his horse to the outside of the city, he was stunned, and the same was true for the thieves behind Zhang Xianzhong who could not see the end.
"That's a lot..."
"All over the ground, all over the ground!"
"Grab it!"
Even before Zhang Xianzhong could react, the thieves who had been hungry and cold for many years rushed over with red eyes.
However, they were not running to Nanyang, but the gold, silver, treasure, and ordnance in front of them were all over the ground.
A large thief rushed to the side of the box, grabbed the jade pearl inside and carried it directly into his arms, his hands were busy, and his eyes were not idle.
He knocked the little man in front of him away and plunged headlong into the sea of silver ingots, at this time, he only hated his father and mother for not giving birth to a few hands for himself, and he couldn't take them at all.
Such an arrogant approach of the big thieves was soon met with the anger of the rest of the thieves.
Several people looked at each other a few times, agreed to step forward, one person and one knife, the big man was pressed by someone, he couldn't get up at all, and was soon stabbed to death on the edge of the box.
The big guy died, and the eyes of the rest of the people changed.
Ignoring the blood-stained gold and silver treasures in the box, these people also fought for the sake of grabbing, and all of them became extremely fierce.
A rogue found a beautiful helmet, and as soon as he put it on, his head disappeared.
Another thief ran over and picked up the still bleeding head, and regardless of the blood on his hands, he took off his helmet and put it on.
When I looked down, I found another cloth armor, and without thinking about it, I tore up my rag shirt and prepared to change it.
"Eight kings, what should I do with this?"
The old camp seems to have seen this situation for the first time, tens of thousands of people, except for a few thousand old camps, most of them did not move, and the rest all pounced on them like hungry wolves, and they couldn't stop killing.
Tens of thousands of thieves were outside Nanyang City, and in front of the officials and soldiers, they fought for the gold, silver, treasures and materials all over the ground, and their jaws dropped as fierce as a tiger.
"It's over, it's all over, the thieves haven't moved yet, and grandpa is in a mess." Zhang Xianzhong narrowed his eyes.
Scattering gold and silver, throwing all the military quarters outside the city, he didn't expect this Zhu Youhua to have such courage, he was too careless!
"Let's go, go to Shaanxi!"
Lao Ying was puzzled: "What are you going to do in Shaanxi?" ”
"Defect to Li Zicheng!"
Zhang Xianzhong turned over on his horse, took one last look at Nanyang, turned around and left.
The old battalions also followed the roar.